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HI! I'm Shay! I'm a cartoonist/animator living in Scotland! Because the National Healthcare Service is terrible at treating their transgender patients I'm seeking private healthcare for my gender affirming surgeries!

Transgender healthcare care is very hard to receive in the UK- a recent BBC report confirmed that trans patients are looking a 5+ year waiting time to be seen for their first appointment.

Which is why I have this fund! Privately seeking gender-affirming care is not a cheap affair and I'm thankful to everyone who has pitched in for me over the last year and a half <3!

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You guys have already showed me so much support! (Thank you!) And the fund recently surpassed the 2/3rds mark! OMG! That's over £5k! I cannot thank you guys enough!

About Me

I'm in my 4th year in Communication Design- working towards a Masters Degree as an animator in Scotland. I've had such a rush of acceptance with open-minded peers within this field. But I've also been uploading personal artwork online for years! Recently I was in Schnumn's anthology series Sensory: Life On The Spectrum- where I discussed some of my personal experiences growing up as an autistic person!

Personal Talk

I've been wearing binders since I was 16, which keeps my chest relatively flat for short stints of time. Due to persistent usage of binders at a young age over a course of years it pushes these periods of time shorter and shorter, resulting in long term breathing issues and sharp pains. It makes me realise that I cannot continue with this method of maintaining androgyny, at the end of the day I come home to a body I dislike but don't have the power to change- and pains from trying to change.

 

Medical Talk- Dysphoria and Prices.

Ever since I was a child all I wanted was to avoid maturity at all costs- I avoided gendered bathrooms, I tried to press my chest inwards by lying on my front, I chopped off all my hair, overwhelmed in my crisis to avoid the body I knew I never wanted. I didn't have the words to say these feelings until I was a teenager- and by that time I was also smart enough to know that many gender clinics would not accept the person I was. Nonbinary is still a new word in many mouths in the UK. I've had doctors insist to me that I'm a girl with a self-flagellating hatred or, even, that I'm a man unable to accept my gender due to an internalised hatred of being transgender. Even now I'm at the start of a four year + journey to be seen by the National Healthcare Service only on the uncertainty that they may insist to me that I am not the person I think I am. So, hoping to reach over the heads of the systems that be- I'm grasping at the chance to go private with my surgery. £7k is the averaged cost of top surgery, however funds for travel and aftercare will be covered by myself to the best of my ability.

Any additional funds would either go towards my recovery or towards my legal name change.